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Polio worker shot dead in Mohmand

2019-04-10

[DAWN] A union council polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... officer associated with the World Health Organisation was rubbed out by unknown persons in Ghazi Baig area of Haleemzai tehsil in Mohmand tribal district on Monday. According to sources, the victim official, Wajid Khan, was on his routine duty in Ghazi Baig area near his home when unknown persons opened fire on him, injuring him seriously. He departed this vale of tears while being shifted to the district headquarters hospital, Ghalanai. After the incident, the local administration officials rushed to the spot and took a suspected man into custody and sent him to Ghalanai lockup for investigation. Local polio workers, residents, political activists and relatives of Mr Wajid placed his body on the main Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. -Bajaur road at Ghazi Baig Bridge and blocked it to traffic to demand immediate arrest of the killers. They also offered the funeral on the road. Local ANP president Nisar Mohmand led the protesters and confirmed that Wajid was killed during his official polio duty. He asked the local administration to register a case against those involved in the attack. The polio official was rubbed out at about 10:45am while FIR could not be registered till the funeral at 6pm.

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Suspects held, hideouts destroyed in Bara

2012-11-09

[Dawn] Security forces on Wednesday cooled for a few years Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! two suspected beturbanned goons and demolished three hideouts of a banned gang in Bar Qambarkhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency, sources said. They said that a heavy contingent of security forces plugged all entry and exit routes to Bar Qambarkhel area before launching a search operation. An indefinite curfew was also imposed in the area, compelling the residents to remain inside their homes. Security forces took over Pakka Tarrha, Hakim Shah and Spin Dhand bases of Amr Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munkir, the banned gang, and later destroyed those with explosives. They cooled for a few years Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Haji Wajid Khan and Niaz Amin on suspension of having links with the banned group. Sources said that security forces also bulldozed the houses of Haji Namdar, the late founder of the banned group, and his close associate Haji Sher Gul in two separate localities. Raids were also conducted to apprehend some of the wanted activists of the banned group. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... according to sources, most of the sympathisers of the group and desperados had fled the area long ago. They had reportedly crossed over to Afghanistan. A source close to the group said that they had no intention to resist the security forces so they vacated the area long ago. Sources said that a group of Bar Qambarkhel elders was still engaged in negotiations with the local political administration to lift the siege of their area. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... these reports could not be confirmed.

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India-Pakistan

3 FC men killed in Quetta blast

2012-10-20

[Pak Daily Times] At least three security personnel were killed and ten others, including five coppers and a woman, were maimed in a remote-controlled blast in the thriving provincial capital on Friday. According to the sources, the blast targeted a Frontier Corps (FC) convoy that was patrolling the Badini intersection area. "The bomb was attached to a bicycle and it was remote-controlled blast," sources said, and added that at least three coppers were killed and 10 others were critically injured. A large number of police and FC personnel rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area following the incident. The dear departed and injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital Quetta for medical aid. The dear departed were identified as Nawab Khan, Sarmad and Wajid Khan, and injured security personnel were identified as Sajad Ahmed, Feroz Ahmed, however identity of three others could not be ascertained. Two of the seriously injured security personnel were referred to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for treatment. DIG (Investigation) Hamid Shakil told news hounds that at least two coppers were killed and ten others, including four coppers, a woman and a passerby, were maimed in the blast. The Bomb Disposal Squad said that around eight to 10 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the attack.

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Troops kill 20 terrorists in Kurram Agency

2012-01-27

PARACHINAR: A government official on Thursday said that security forces had killed 20 terrorists after coming under attack near the Afghan border. Wajid Khan said 22 other troops were injured in the gun battle in Kurram Agency. He said the fighting began when a group of militants attacked a security post. The troops returned the fire and killed 20 of them, he added. The death toll could not be independently confirmed as the fighting was in a remote mountainous area that is off-limits to journalists. What part of Pakistain is safe for journalists?

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Pakistan pulls out of border liaison posts

2011-12-07

[Dawn] Pakistain on Tuesday temporarily recalled some troops from border posts meant to coordinate activity with international forces in neighbouring Afghanistan. Authorities want to discuss how to improve the process after NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... Arclight airstrikes last month killed 24 Pak soldiers, the military said. The decision highlighted current problems with coordination because US military officials seemed to think it was another retaliatory move by Pakistain for the NATO strikes. The officials feared it would hamper efforts to liaise with Pak forces and increase the risk something could go wrong again. The troops were recalled Tuesday for "consultation" and should be back at their posts within the next few days, said a senior Pak military official. The official did not specify how many troops would be recalled or how many would be left at the border centres. US military officials said late Monday that Pakistain was pulling out of at least two of the three centres along the border. Both the US and Pak officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. The US and Pakistain have offered different accounts of what led to the NATO attacks against two army posts along the Afghan border before dawn on November 26, but the deadly incident seems to have been caused in part by communication breakdowns. The soldiers' deaths have plunged the already strained US-Pakistain relations to an all-time low, threatening Washington's attempts to get Pakistain to cooperate on the Afghan war despite billions of dollars in American aid. Pakistain retaliated immediately by closing its Afghan border crossings to NATO supplies, demanding the US vacate an air base used by American drones and boycotting an international conference held Monday in Bonn, Germany, aimed at stabilising Afghanistan. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in an interview Monday that Pakistain wanted to repair relations with the United States. But there is still simmering anger in the country. NATO attacks have killed Pak troops at least three different times along the porous and poorly defined border since 2008, but the incident on November 26 in the Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... tribal area was by far the most deadly. US officials have said the incident occurred when a joint US and Afghan patrol requested air support after coming under fire. The US checked with the Pakistain military to see if there were friendly troops in the area and were told there were not, they said. Pakistain has said the coordinates given by the Americans were wrong -- an allegation denied by US defence officials. Pak officials have also said the attack continued even after military authorities contacted one of the border coordination centres. Gilani said Monday that negotiating new ties with the US would ensure that the two countries "respected each other's red lines" regarding illusory sovereignty and rules of engagement along the border. "We really want to have good relations with the US based on mutual respect and clearly defined parameters," he said in the interview at his residence in Lahore. Despite Gilani's gentler rhetoric, the gulf between the two nations remains wide. US officials have said the Arclight airstrikes have been the most serious blow to a relationship that has been battered by a series of crises this year, including the covert American raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no more... in Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... in May. Pakistain was outraged because it wasn't told about the operation beforehand. The B.O. regime wants continued engagement even as Pakistain's refusal to attack sanctuaries used by Afghan beturbanned goons along the border has fuelled criticism in Congress. Many analysts believe Pakistain wants to preserve its historical ties with Afghan beturbanned goons because they could be key allies in Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw. Pakistain has said its troops are stretched too thin battling Pak Talibs at war with the state. A shootout between soldiers and Pak Taliban fighters in the Kurram tribal area Tuesday left two soldiers and 12 bully boyz dead, said Wajid Khan, a local government administrator. Even if Pakistain won't attack Afghan thugs, US officials hope Pakistain will cooperate in pushing them to participate in peace talks.

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Eight intending pilgrims held for smuggling drugs

2010-10-31

[Pak Daily Times] The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on Saturday jugged eight intending hajis for trying to smuggle heroin to Soddy Arabia, officials said. Six people were taken off-board a Jeddah-bound Pakistain International Airlines flight after presence of heroin-filled capsules in their stomachs. ANF Commandant Brig Muhammad Ameer Khan told Daily Times that the ANF had reports that a gang was using pilgrims to smuggle drugs to Soddy Arabia. He said two more pilgrims were jugged from the Haji Camp. The jugged were identified as Muhammad Ishaq and Tanveerul Hassan of Sheikhupura, Muhammad Saeed of Khushab, Muhammad Riaz, Ghulam Muhammad Khan and Khan Mir of Mianwali, Wajid Khan of Mardan and Syed Wali of the Orakzai Agency. ... home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar...

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NWFP govt and Taliban 'secretly' resume talks

2008-06-21

The NWFP government and the Swat Taliban resumed talks on Friday when Forests Minister Wajid Ali Khan secretly met Taliban leaders and assured them that their reservations would be addressed. Wajid Khan met several Taliban leaders, including Ali Bakht, Haji Muslim Khan, Maulana Amin, Mahmood Khan and Nisar Khan in the Deouli area of Swat and asked them to continue peace talks. According to sources, the Taliban complained that their colleagues were still imprisoned and the army was still occupying the area. The Taliban also said that their reservations should be addressed by June 23 or there could be consequences. Khan requested the Taliban to continue negotiations so that all issues could be settled through dialogue and assured the Taliban that he would convey their reservations to the provincial government. The local Taliban had ended contact with the government on June 17 to protest at the government’s delay in releasing 50 Taliban prisoners. Peace deal: NWFP Senior Minister Bashir Bilour said the NWFP government would honour the peace agreement with the Taliban “in letter and spirit” to ensure stability and prosperity. Clause IV of the peace deal says prisoners would be released after “reviewing cases against them”. Under the deal, the NWFP government has conceded to a gradual withdrawal of all security forces from the Swat district.

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Boomer targets Sherpao, 25 killed

2007-04-29

Twenty-five people were killed and Federal Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao Khan and his young son Sikandar Sherpao Khan were among scores injured in a suicide attack on Saturday, moments after the minister finished a speech at a public rally in his hometown Charsadda. NWFP Inspector General of Police Sharif Virk said five policemen were among the 25 dead. Unofficial sources put the death at more than 30. The head of the suicide bomber, who had a brown beard and was aged 30-35, was found at the site of the blast near Station Koroona in Charsadda, and “he looks like an Afghan,” Virk told reporters. “Sherpao was going towards his vehicle after finishing his speech and people also rushed towards him for hand-shakes and during this moment I heard a big bang,” said Ayub, who was injured in the blast, from his hospital bed. “It was a big explosion sending a thick cloud of dust to the air,” Wajid Khan, another witness, told Daily Times by phone from Charsadda. The minister and his son received minor shrapnel wounds. Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao spokesman Saleem Shah Hoti said they had been taken to their Peshawar residence in University Town and were “safe and sound”. TV footage showed Sherpao and his son walking around with blood stains on their clothes. The minister had blood on his face. Sherpao released a statement condemning the bombing as an act of cowardice and vowed to continue his work trying to defeat terrorism as usual. An emergency was declared in three hospitals in Peshawar, where 29 wounded persons had been brought in by around 10pm. Others were said to be on their way from Charsadda. Intelligence sources said that the minister had been forewarned of a possible attack on him and “circumstantial evidence links Waziristan to the Saturday attack”. They said investigators would probe how the bomber was able to reach the area and move close to Sherpao. “Security around the interior minister is at an all-time high and tight wherever he is and we have to assess whether there was a security lapse,” they said. NWFP Information Minister Asif Iqbal told reporters the provincial government would pay Rs 100,000 each to the families of those killed in the attack and Rs 50,000 to each person wounded. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. The interior minister’s elder brother Hayat Sherpao was killed in a blast when he was addressing a function on the University of Peshawar campus in 1975.

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Great White North

Hezbollah like Nazis, Tory MP says

2006-08-23

VANCOUVER (CP) - Divisions within the Liberal party over the Middle East deepened Tuesday with two leadership contenders calling for the resignation of the party's deputy foreign affairs critic. Scott Brison and Carolyn Bennett said fellow Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj cannot retain his post as a foreign affairs spokesman after declaring that Canada should negotiate directly with Hezbollah as part of a bid to restore peace in Lebanon. "Borys should resign as critic. His statements were unacceptable," Brison said, noting that it was a Liberal government that first listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Wrzesnewskyj's comments, made over the weekend during a tour of the Middle East with NDP and Bloc colleagues, became the unwelcome focus on the first of the Liberals' three-day summer caucus retreat, which was supposed to plot strategy for the fall session of Parliament. The 10 leadership hopefuls weighed in to repudiate Wrzesnewskyj's comments, including his own preferred candidate, Gerard Kennedy. Apart from Brison and Bennett, however, most contenders said Wrzesnewskyj should be given a chance to explain himself to caucus before any decision is made on his critic's post. The controversy, the latest in a series of damaging remarks by Liberals on the explosive Middle East situation, left some frustrated MPs complaining that the prolonged leadership race is to blame for the party's lack of coherence on issues, particularly the conflict in Lebanon. "I think what these divisions show is that the Liberals are in a leadership race," said Montreal MP Irwin Cotler. "Until a permanent leader is chosen, you're not going to get the same uniform, consistent and clear policy that can be articulated by someone like Prime Minister (Stephen) Harper on behalf of his government and party." Wrzesnewskyj was initially reported as saying that Hezbollah should be dropped from the list of terrorist organizations. He denied having said that. "I've said all along that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and will continue to be," Wrzesnewskyj said on Monday from Lebanon. "Where I have difficulty is with the legislation that says a group on the list cannot be communicated with." The three opposition parties immediately reacted by stepping away from the comments of their MPs and underlining their support for Hezbollah's terrorist designation. The Liberals are facing particularly harsh criticism in recent weeks in relation to their Mideast policy - or lack thereof - in the midst of a leadership race. A number of prominent members of Canada's Jewish community, including power couple Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman, have left the party over its perceived lack of support for Israel's bombardment of Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon. Brison said Wrzesnewskyj has "complicated" the issue for the Liberals. "It's always a challenge during a prolonged leadership process to maintain unity on difficult issues. But I think it requires individual members of caucus to have that discipline," Brison said. "Borys' statements don't reflect that discipline or that capacity to govern." In Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's parliamentary secretary lashed out at the trio of opposition MPs visiting Lebanon, comparing Hezbollah to the German Nazi party of the 1930s. "We need to learn the lessons of history. There was another political party in the past which had democratic support, which provided social services, which played an important role in the political life of Germany in the 1930s, which was also dedicated to violence against the Jewish people," Kenney told a news conference Tuesday. "The world was wrong to negotiate with that party then, and it would be wrong to negotiate with Hezbollah today." “Former cabinet minister Denis Coderre marched recently in a peace rally in Montreal that included Hezbollah supporters hoisting the organization's flag. Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe was also at the event.” Wrzesnewskyj is not the only Liberal to generate controversy over the Middle East. Former cabinet minister Denis Coderre marched recently in a peace rally in Montreal that included Hezbollah supporters hoisting the organization's flag. Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe was also at the event. Exacerbating things for the Liberals were comments by a party youth leader in British Columbia who recently wrote on an Internet blog that Israel was the "most vile nation in human history," and suggested Hezbollah might be considered freedom fighters. Thomas Hubert has now resigned his post on the youth wing executive. Both Hubert and Wrzesnewskyj are supporters of leadership hopeful Kennedy, who quickly distanced himself from their remarks. Kennedy stressed that his own opinions on Hezbollah are different than Wrzesnewskyj's. "I think that you can't sanction violence. We have to operate according to principles and one of the principles is not to acknowledge bodies that will not abide by basic human rights and international law," Kennedy said. Some Liberals tried to put a positive spin on the latest controversy. Michael Ignatieff, the presumed leadership frontrunner who made his own gaffe on the Middle East earlier this month when he suggested he wasn't losing sleep over the loss of civilian lives in Lebanon, praised Liberals for being willing to debate sensitive issues. "The Liberal party has become the centre of national debate on these issues," he said. Similarly, Kennedy said a lot of the debate and difference of opinion is "healthy." "It's not comfortable, it's not easy and there's tremendous emotions on the part of a wide swath of Canadians on this," he said. Graham has faced some internal criticism for not being able to control Liberal MPs like Wajid Khan, who has temporarily left caucus to act as special adviser to Harper on the Middle East. But he suggested that having a variety of views within the party is healthier and more democratic than the way in which Conservative MPs are muzzled. "We don't have an iron-clad discipline around our members . . . Nobody's got them locked up on a bus and thrown away the key, the way (it was done) at a recent caucus of the Conservatives." Leadership hopeful Bob Rae agreed that "there's always room for discussion in a party." But he added: "I do worry as a potential leader about the amount of freelancing that's going on. There does need to be some discipline and some cohesiveness."

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Great White North

Wajid Khan: 'I did my duty'

2006-06-14

Thank you. Yes, you did. Muslim MP believes his community must expose extremists The clash between Islamic extremism and Western democracy tends to be discussed as a geopolitical abstraction. But around a year ago, in a storefront mosque in a suburban Toronto strip mall, the confrontation was reduced to a very human scale -- a single strident Muslim ideologue against a lone elected Muslim politician. Liberal MP Wajid Khan was making what he thought would be a routine visit to the Al-Rahman Islamic Centre in his Mississauga-Streetsville riding. The drop-in took an unexpected turn when the mosque caretaker who was to introduce Khan instead began railing against Muslims participating in mainstream politics. It was a memorably unpleasant encounter for Khan, but it came to public attention only because of the identity of the radical who delivered the tirade: Qayyum Abdul Jamal, now 43, one of the 17 terrorist suspects arrested in Toronto, and the man singled out as a mentor to the much younger accused would-be bombers. According to Khan, Jamal's rant that day reached an outrageous climax with the charge that Canadian troops in Afghanistan were "raping Muslim women." It was too much for the MP. "I stood up and moved this gentleman, if I can call him that, aside, and spoke to the congregation -- utter nonsense, this isn't true, our troops are doing a wonderful job," Khan recalled in an interview. "Most of the congregation was very pleased with my comments and very upset with this gentleman." And Khan hints strongly that he did not merely walk away from the incident. Asked by Maclean's if he reported Jamal's incendiary views to the RCMP or CSIS, Khan said cautiously, "I don't think I want to answer that question for obvious reasons. All I can say is that I did my duty. I can't be quoted on specifics." The possibility that a member of Parliament was among those who raised the alarm about Jamal is an intriguing twist in the complex story of how police built their case leading to the arrests. Even if, as is likely, any report to the authorities from Khan was a minor element in the investigation, the episode stands out in the growing debate among Canadian Muslims about how they should interact with police and CSIS agents. Some Muslim leaders have objected in the past to the approach federal anti-terrorism investigators have taken, complaining that the line of inquiry often seems to suggest the most devout Muslims represent the greatest potential security threat. Khan argues that Muslims must now become less defensive and more co-operative, answering questions on the assumption that authorities will use information responsibly. "While the wider community must be vigilant," he said, "the onus now rests, not solely, but mainly on the Muslim community." Khan said he expects his call for greater co-operation with police will anger some Muslim leaders. But he contends that most Canadian Muslims are so shocked by the arrests and the sensational details of the charges that their attitudes have shifted. "This has brought a new reality to our community across Canada," he said. "Up to now, people were hoping against hope that it doesn't happen here." Following last July's London transit bombings, Khan said, many Canadian Muslims, among others, emphasized that the level of poverty and youth disenfranchisement among Muslims is greater in Europe than here, making young Canadian Muslims less receptive to radical messages. But that optimistic reading of the situation now looks hopelessly inadequate. Khan's call for Muslims to take more responsibility for identifying potentially dangerous extremists in their communities was echoed by some other Muslim leaders last week. But there are competing voices, and conflicting statements. I'll bet Aly Hindy, the controversial imam at the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in suburban Toronto, denounced the charges as "an attack on the Muslim community," even though he also told reporters that he himself had called authorities to report concerns about one of the suspects. Khan said moderate Muslim leaders must become more outspoken, and tout the opportunities and openness of Canadian society. A former military pilot in Pakistan, he settled in Toronto in 1974, and rose from car salesman to president of a large dealership, before winning his seat in the 2004 and being re-elected this year. His wife is a doctor. Khan, 60, says he has never faced bigotry in Canada. "Our watchwords," he said, "are diversity and respect." And in these tense days, he argues, Canadian Muslims need to trust those values -- and the RCMP and CSIS, too.

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Canadian MP had encounter with one of Canadian jihadis

2006-06-08

Wajid Khan won't decide til the last minute whether to fly as scheduled to Brussels today for a meeting of defence chiefs at NATO headquarters. It's an important summit and the Liberal Party's associate defence critic — Khan was a former military pilot in Pakistan before coming to Canada in 1974 — wants to be there. He missed the meeting last October because he helped organize Canada's response to the earthquake in Pakistan. There is just one problem: Khan is also MP for Mississauga-Streetsville. It's on his turf that security forces scooped up suspected Islamic terrorists last weekend. It may not be a good time to be out of the country. Khan realized with a shock on Saturday that he knew one of the accused, or rather, had had an encounter last year with Qayyum Abdul Jamal, the 43-year-old caretaker and frequent radical speaker at Mississauga's Ar-Rahman Islamic Centre. Khan had been invited to speak at the Islamic centre at a Mississauga strip mall. Jamal was slated to introduce him. But in the process, the avowed fundamentalist launched a verbal attack on Canadian institutions and, in particular, on the deployment of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, where, he said, they were raping the Afghan women. "It was all kinds of derogatory things," Khan recalls. "I said, `You're talking a lot of nonsense. The troops are doing a wonderful job there.' "I told the congregation that this was misinformation and they shouldn't accept it. Then I walked out." Good for you. He later learned that some members of the centre were "so upset with Jamal they roughed him up a little, pushed him." The point is, Khan says, not all Muslims are like-minded. Khan met on Sunday with representatives of 25 different non-religious Muslim organizations who want to help security forces root out Islamic extremists. He told them they can start by "not tolerating this kind of nonsense in the community." Critics such as Tarek Fatah of the Muslim Canadian Congress, however, charge that ordinary Muslims are all too often left out of the loop. Police and politicians seem to meet only with religious leaders, he says. There's an interesting point -- perhaps the average Ahmed on the street would be more willing to help the police, but the mosque leaders are getting in the way. He's also critical of Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair for holding a press conference Sunday at a Scarborough mosque. "Blair sat down with the most radical imams and gave them credibility," he says.

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Bomb-plot figure was mosque regular

2006-06-06

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario - Qayyum Abdul Jamal and several others arrested Friday in what Canadian police say was a foiled bomb plot were regulars at Al-Rahman mosque, a storefront space sandwiched between a Hasty convenience market and a beauty saloon in a small strip mall in Mississauga. The 43-year-old Jamal, the oldest of those nabbed in the police sweep, lived with his family just down the road, in a neat, suburban townhouse complex where neighbors said he spent a lot of time fixing cars in his driveway. ``He was quiet. Didn't say much,'' said his next-door neighbor. "A loner. Kept to himself..." But that was not true at the mosque. Jamal's angry view of the world, and his belief that the West is at war with Muslims, boiled over there, others say. It was so strident it startled Wajid Khan, a Muslim member of Parliament who stopped at the mosque last year on his regular rounds of his district just west of Toronto. ``I was concerned that he had found a bunch of young kids and he was able to influence them,'' Khan said in an interview Sunday. ``I think we have to be extremely vigilant in the Muslim community. We have to watch out for people who are trying to teach disaffected youths that it's the Muslims against the rest, a war of civilizations.'' Yeah. I guess you do. You might start by grabbing the guys spewing spittle and rolling their eyes and putting them in straightjackets.

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